There are two different ways in which simultaneous requests can be executed within Python: multithreading and multiprocessing. Often, these two items are confused with each other, and when you read about them, you will see similar responses on blogs and newsgroups. If you are speaking about using multiple processors and processing cores, you are talking about multiprocessing. If you are staying within the same memory block but not using multiple cores or processes, then you are talking about multithreading. Multithreading, in turn, runs concurrent code but does not execute tasks in parallel due to the Python interpreter's design.
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If you review Chapter 8, Exploit Development with Python, Metasploit, and Immunity, and look at the defined areas of the Windows memory, you will gain a better understanding of how threads and processes work within the Windows memory structure. Keep in mind that the manner in which other Operating...